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ORNAMENTING AND PROTECTING METAL ARTIGLES.

No. 251,409. Patented 1m. 27,1881,

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ORNAMENTING AND PROTECTING METAL ARTICLES.

No. 251,409. Patented Dec. 27,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN .R. OAHOONE, CHARLES E. GAHOONE, AND GEORGE WALKER, OF NEWARK, NEWJERSEY; SAID WALKER AND CHARLES E. (JAHOONE ASSIGNORS TO SAlD EDWIN R.CAHOONE.

ORNAMENTING AND PROTECTING METAL ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,409, dated December27, 1881. Application filed June 11, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWIN R. OAHOONE,

CHARLES E. OAHooNE, and GEORGE WALKER,

citizens of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ornamenting and Protecting Metal Articles; and we dohereby declare 'ornamentiug and protecting against disfigurement suchmetallic articles as harness-trimmings, carriage-hardware, 850.; andtheinvention consists in soldering to the exposed surfaces of sucharticles,in suitable designs, strips or pieces of thin ornamental metal,then lac quering, plating, or japannin g such articles until the desiredquantity of lacquer or japan has been applied, and then removing thesurplus lacquer or japan and polishing, whereby elegant and durabletrimmings are produced, upon which the lacquer, japan, or plating isprotected from being chipped oii' and disfigured by blows, 866. v

In the accompanying drawings, in the several figures of which like partsare similarly designated, Figures 1, 2, and 3 are edge elevations andcross-sections of various shapes and designs of terrets embodying ourinvention. Fig. 4 is a perspective view and crosssection of awater-hook. Fig. 5 is a side view and section, and Fig. 6 a front viewand section, of buckles. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a terret-blank;Fig.8, a similar view of a terret-blank having our protecting andornamenting strips soldered on. Fig. 9 is a vertical cross-section ofthe blank shown in Fig. 8, after the same has been coated; and Fig. 10is a sectional elevation of the coated blank of Fig. 9, after thesurplus coating has been removed and the article finished for market.

In order to produce the articles shown in Figs. 1 to 6 and others, wefirst take the ordinarycasting-sa v a terret, a, Fig. 7-and havingprepared suitable designs in thin sheet nickel-plated, Germansilver,gilded, or other metal or alloy, as strips 1), we solder such designs tothe casting. If for ornament only, we arrange such strips in the mosteffective man'- ner; but if utility is to be sought also, we arrangesuch strips upon exposed surfaces, as the rib c of a terret, Fig. 2, oredges (1 of a terret," Fig. 3, or the spine 6 of a water hook, Fig.4.,"or the head f of a buckle, Fig. 5, or elsewhere where the article isapt to come into violent contact with another surface. After the stiripsare soldered in place we apply lacquer, japan, or other coating, g, bybrushing, dipping, or otherwise, until the desired thickness isobtained, when we remove the surplus and polish the surface in anysuitable manner. If the coating is applied by dipping, the article will,when sufficiently coated, be wholly covered by the coating, as in Fig.9; but by then subjecting it to a grinding mechanism the coating will betaken off until even with the strips, and the whole then finished bypolishing.-

Terrets, 850., made after this manner may have their inner surface, h,section-figures 1, 6, 9, and 10, coated and polished; or such surfacelined with a bright metal, i, as in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, corresponding incolor withthe strips 1); or such inner surface may have the coatingremoved and the original metal polished, as in Fig. 3. By thusconstructing such articles their coating is preserved intact throughlong and hard usage, and very elegant trimmings produced at greateconomy of labor,-material, andselling cost.

Before our invention it was common to cast or strike up in dies metalarticles-such as drawer-pulls,harness-trimmings,&c.-witl1depressed andsalient portions, to then apply a coating of plastic or fluid substance,which ente ied the depressed portions and covered the salient-portions,and then, after the depressed portions were snfficiently filled-as, forinstance, fiush with the salient surfaces-the enamel or coating wasground off and polished, leaving exposed the metal of the salientportions, which is afterward polished or plated.

The formation of these salient surfaces by cast-.

ing involves costly molds, and in small articles-such asharness-trimmingsthere must be always more or less defects in thecasting. By strikipg up from sheet metal expensive dies must he had. Byeither method the product is too expensive to be commercially successfulas compared with the variety of design, rapidity otmanufacture, elegancein appearance, and economy of production obtainable by soldering on thesalient features, for the original casting is made in the plainestpossible manner, with the simplest molds, and of the cheapest material,and the finish puton to suit. An ordinary iron casting can be readilyconverted into the most elegant gold, silver, or nickel mountedtrimming.

Cloisonne work in the ceramic art has long been known, and has beenpracticed in some instances by soldering threads or strips of metal to ametal base in such designs as to form cells of' various configuration.These cells were then filled with an enamel, it being usual to useenamels of (Rmtrasting colors in adjacent cells throughout the Work. Themost common illustrations of eloisonn work are vases, cups, and thelike. ,Now, the purpose of these metal strips in eloisonn work is toform cells to receive different-colored enamels, rather than to form aprotecting-surface for them and the article into which they enter. Theprimary object of our invention is to protect by these metal strips thatportion of the article to which they are applied which is most exposedto hard usage, our invention being utilitarian rather than aesthetic.

What we claim is-- 1. The improvement in the mode of protectingtheexposed portions of metal trimmings which consists in soldering stripsor pieces of sheet metal in ornamental or other designs to the blanks onsuch portions as will be exposed to wear or hard usage in the finishedarticles,

next coating such articles with japan, lacquer, or other substances, andthen reducing and polishing the surfaces, so as to bring the outersurfaces of the strips or bits of metal and the coating flush,substantially as described.

2. Harness trimmings and the like composed of ametal body, strips orpieces of bright metal soldered thereto, and a lacquer, japan, orequivalent coating surrounding and flush with the said strips,substantially as described.

3. Coated, japanned, or lacquered metal bodies-such asharness-trimmings-provided with metal strips or pieces in ornamental orother design soldered to their exposed portions to take the wear ordamage to such bodies and 7 protect the coating from fracture,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

EDWIN R. GAHOONE. CHARLES E. OAHOONE. GEORGE VALKER.

Witnesses:

ABRAHAM MANNERS, Tnno. F. QKEER.

